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- Mihály Vörösmarty was born on 1 December 1780 in Pusztanyék, Hungary [now Kápolnásnyék, Hungary]. He was a writer, known for Szép Ilonka (1921), Musical TV Theater (1970) and The Old Gypsy (2018). He was married to Laura Csajághy. He died on 19 November 1855 in Pest, Hungary [now part of Budapest, Hungary].
- Friedrich Burgmüller was born on 1 December 1806 in Regensburg, Germany. Friedrich died on 13 February 1874 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
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Ernest Reyer was born on 1 December 1823 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He is known for La joie de vivre (1952). He died on 15 January 1909 in Le Lavandou, Var, France.- Queen Alexandra was born Princess Alexandra Caroline Mary Charlotte Louisa Julia on December 1, 1844. She was the granddaughter of the king of Denmark. She lived an uneventful childhood in the palaces of Denmark with her sister, Marie, who became the mother of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. When Alex, as she was called, turned 16 she was considered a great beauty, and won the hand of the heir to the throne of England. She and Prince Albert Edward, or "Bertie", were married on March 10, 1863. They had six children including the future King George V. The first 40 years of marriage were very turbulent for Alexandra. As well as the six children, she had to contend with a brother-in-law (the husband of Bertie's sister Helena) whose family wanted a stake in the Schleswig-Holstein lands that had belonged to the kings of Denmark for generations. Finally in 1901 her mother-in-law, Queen Victoria, died, making her husband King Edward VII and she, in turn, Queen Consort. During her time as Queen she did many things to make England better, including the establishment of The Red Cross.
In 1910, however, something happened to change everything. Her husband of almost 50 years died. On his death bed she did a very magnanimous thing: she allowed his mistress, Alice Keppel, to say goodbye to him. After his death she lived at the house in which she had lived during her marriage. Unfortunately, she also lived with the increasing deafness that plagued her life as well as that of her son Albert Victor, who would have become king if he had not died. Alexandra died in 1925 of a heart attack and is buried at Windsor near her husband and mother and father-in-law. - Agathe Backer-Grøndahl was born on 1 December 1847 in Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway. She was married to Olaus Andreas Grøndahl. She died on 4 June 1907 in Christiania, Norway [now Oslo, Norway].
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John Binns was born on 1 December 1858 in England, UK. He was an actor. He was married to Edith Ann Rhodes. He died on 29 August 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- George Stevens was born on 1 December 1859 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Come Out of the Kitchen (1919), My Lady's Slipper (1916) and A Million Bid (1914). He was married to Katherine L.. He died on 20 August 1940 in New York City, New York, USA.
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John M. East born John Marlborough East in London in 1860. John began on comedy and drama theatre from the 1880's. Popular gentleman character and support actor, appeared in more than 30 British silent drama and adventure movies, making his film debut as Tom Cribb in Harold M. Shaw's 'The House of Temperley' starring Ben Webster for the London Film Co in 1913. Perhaps his best known roles was as Little John in 'In the Days of Robin Hood' starring H. Agar Lyons in the title role made at the Natural Colour Kinematograph studios in 1913 and as Old Kipps in 'Kipps' starring George K. Arthur at the Stoll Film Co in 1921. He made his final movie as the Shepherd in 'Owd Bob' directed by Henry Edwards for Atlantic Union Film Co in 1924 John died that same year in London age 64. In the mid 1910's he became so well-known in the movies he received over 3000 votes in Picturegoer magazine's 1916 contest to establish the 'Greatest British Film Player. John was also a screenwriter and one of the co-founders of the Neptune Film Company in Borehamwood which is today the site of Elstree studios.- Orrin Johnson was born on 1 December 1865 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for Satan Sanderson (1915), The Three Musketeers (1916) and The Penitentes (1915). He was married to Isabel B. Smith and Katherine Grey. He died on 24 November 1943 in Neenah, Wisconsin, USA.
- Jean Coquelin was born on 1 December 1865 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Café de Paris (1938), L'abbé Constantin (1925) and La chanson du souvenir (1937). He was married to 'Blanche Miroir' and Louise Didès. He died on 1 October 1944 in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, Seine-et-Marne, France.
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Victor Margueritte was born on 1 December 1866 in Blida, Algeria. He was a writer and actor, known for L'imprévu (1917), La garçonne (1936) and La garçonne (1957). He died on 23 March 1942 in Monestier, France.- Ignacy Moscicki was born on 1 December 1867 in Mierzanowo, Mazowieckie, Poland. He died on 2 October 1946 in Versoix, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Luther Standing Bear, born Plenty Kill, was a Oglala Lakota Native American writer and actor, and on of the first students of the controversial Carlisle Indian Industrial School, in Pennsylvania. He began his entertainment career as an interpreter, dancer, and horseback rider with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, which traveled the country at the turn of the century. From 1910 to the 1930s he starred in several western films. He is the author of My People the Sioux (1928), Land of the Spotted Eagle (1933), and Stories of the Sioux (1934).
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Frederick (or Frederic) Chapin had two careers: he was the composer who wrote the score for L. Frank Baum's 1905 stage musical "The Woggle-Bug" and a number of other shows in that era, including "The Storks" (1902), "Pussy in a Corner" (1904), "The Forbidden Land" (1904), "The American Girl" (1906) and "The Maid and the Millionaire" (1907). For the last of these, Chapin wrote the book and lyrics as well as the music--an expansion from music to words that would mark his later career as Hollywood screenwriter, although he returned to composing music in 1938 for the nudist romance Unashamed: A Romance (1938). In 1938, he took up stand-in work using the name Fred Fuller (cf. New York Post, Feb 8, 1938).- Director
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Edward A. Salisbury was born on 1 December 1875 in California, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Lost Empire (1929), Gow (1931) and Wild Life of America in Films (1915). He died on 17 July 1962 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.- George Creel was born on 1 December 1876 in Lafayette County, Missouri, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Saved by the Juvenile Court (1913) and The Heart of a Cowboy (1909). He was married to Alice Rosseter and Blanche Bates. He died on 2 October 1953 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Frau Lehndorf-Schöttle was born on 1 December 1876 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. She was an actress, known for Kinder der Landstraße (1919), Sünden der Eltern (1920) and Die Tragödie der Manja Orsan (1919). She died on 3 December 1962.
- Ella Daincourt was born on 1 December 1876 in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Shooting Stars (1928), She Was Only a Village Maiden (1933) and Cyrano de Bergerac (1938). She died on 24 September 1940 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Robert Kegerreis was born on 1 December 1876 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Law of the North (1917), The Ballet Girl (1916) and The Last Sentence (1917). He died on 8 November 1951 in Richland, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Melvin Mayo was born on 1 December 1878 in Silver City, Nevada, USA. He is known for The Death Warrant (1914), Love Is Law (1916) and None So Blind (1916).- Costume Designer
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Ali Hubert was born on 1 December 1878 in Vienna, Austria. Ali was a costume designer, known for The Sea Hawk (1940), The Merry Widow (1934) and Sumurun (1920). Ali died on 1 June 1940 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Costume Designer
Alexander Hubert was born on 1 December 1878. He was a costume designer, known for Carmen (1918). He died on 14 June 1940 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
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Viran Rydkvist was born on 1 December 1879 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an actress, known for En trallande jänta (1942), Tänk, om jag gifter mig med prästen (1941) and Skeppsbrutne Max (1936). She died on 10 July 1942 in Stockholm, Sweden.- Writer
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American songwriter who composed hundreds of songs, many of them now standards. The daughter of a journalist, Whitson was born in Hickman County, Tennessee, where she collaborated with her sister Alice on lyrics. She also wrote poetry and was widely published as a poet and fiction writer. In 1909, she had a hit with her song "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland," repopularized years later in the film In the Good Old Summertime (1949). Her most enduring song came in 1910: "Let Me Call You Sweetheart." She died at 51 in Nashville and was buried there.- Cinematographer
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Howard Oswald was born on 1 December 1879. He was a cinematographer, known for The Peddler of Lies (1920), Confidence (1922) and The Untameable (1923). He died in May 1968 in New Jersey, USA.- Anna Dewey was born on 1 December 1880 in Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Fireside Theatre (1949). She was married to ? Newland. She died on 24 June 1967 in Hollywood, California, USA.
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Oscar Olsson was born on 1 December 1880 in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. He was a cinematographer, known for Patriks äventyr (1915), Med prins Wilhelm på afrikanska jaktstigar (1922) and Brandsoldaten (1916). He died in 1936.- Harry Beasley was born on 1 December 1882 in Liversedge, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Chester Forgets Himself (1924), Rodney Fails to Qualify (1924) and Ordeal by Golf (1924). He died on 6 January 1960 in Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK.
- Ed Reulbach was born on 1 December 1882 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He died on 17 July 1961 in Glens Falls, New York, USA.
- Karl Schmid-Bloss was born on 1 December 1883 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was an actor, known for William Tell (1924). He died on 21 February 1956 in Zürich, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland.
- Torben Meyer was born on 1 December 1884 in Århus, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Sullivan's Travels (1941) and The Last Warning (1928). He died on 22 May 1975 in Hollywood, California, USA.
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T. Hayes Hunter was born on 1 December 1884 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. T. Hayes was a director and writer, known for The Ghoul (1933), The Light in the Clearing (1921) and Damaged Hearts (1924). T. Hayes was married to Millicent Evans. T. Hayes died on 14 April 1944 in London, England, UK.- Frederick Leister was born on 1 December 1885 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Evensong (1934), The World, the Flesh, the Devil (1932) and The Prime Minister (1941). He was married to Dora Luther. He died on 24 August 1970.
- Wladimir A. Timm was born on 1 December 1885 in St Petersburg, Russia. He died on 28 August 1958 in Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA.
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Dimitri Shevardnadze was born on 1 December 1885 in Bakhvi, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire [now Republic of Georgia]. He was a production designer and costume designer, known for Qristine (1916), Djanki Guriashi (1928) and Vin aris damnashave? (1925). He died in 1937.- Harry Lewis was born on 1 December 1885 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for God Gave Me Twenty Cents (1926). He died on 18 November 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Arsenal Football Club is a professional football club based in Islington, London, England, that plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. The club has won 13 League titles, a record 13 FA Cups, two League Cups, the League Centenary Trophy, 15 FA Community Shields, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. It is also the only English club to go a 38-match league season unbeaten, receiving the nickname The Invincibles, and a special gold Premier League trophy.
Arsenal was the first club from the South of England to join The Football League, in 1893, and they reached the First Division in 1904. Relegated only once, in 1913, they continue the longest streak in the top division, and have won the second-most top-flight matches in English football history. In the 1930s, Arsenal won five League Championships and two FA Cups, and another FA Cup and two Championships after the war. In 1970-71, they won their first League and FA Cup Double. Between 1989 and 2005, they won five League titles and five FA Cups, including two more Doubles. They completed the 20th century with the highest average league position.
Herbert Chapman won Arsenal's first national trophies, but died prematurely. He helped introduce the WM formation, floodlights, and shirt numbers, and added the white sleeves and brighter red to Arsenal's kit. Arsène Wenger has been the longest-serving manager and has won the most trophies. He has won a record 7 FA Cups, and his team set an English record for the longest top-flight unbeaten league run at 49 games.
In 1886, Woolwich munitions workers founded the club as Dial Square. In 1913, the club crossed the city to Arsenal Stadium in Highbury, becoming close neighbours of Tottenham Hotspur, and creating the North London derby. In 2006, they moved to the nearby Emirates Stadium. In terms of revenue, Arsenal was the sixth highest-earning football club in the world, earned EUR487.6m in 2016-17 season. Based on social media activity from 2014-15, Arsenal's fanbase is the fifth largest in the world. In 2016, Forbes estimated the club was the second most valuable in England, worth $2.0 billion.
On 1 December 1886, munitions workers in Woolwich, now South East London, formed Arsenal as Dial Square, with David Danskin as their first captain. Named after the heart of the Royal Arsenal complex, they took the name of the whole complex a month later. Royal Arsenal F.C.'s first home was Plumstead Common, though they spent most of their time in South East London playing on the other side of Plumstead, at the Manor Ground. Royal Arsenal won Arsenal's first trophies in 1890 and 1891, and these were the only football association trophies Arsenal won during their time in South East London. In 1891, Royal Arsenal became the first London club to turn professional.
Royal Arsenal renamed themselves for a second time upon becoming a limited liability company in 1893. They registered their new name, Woolwich Arsenal, with The Football League when the club ascended later that year. Woolwich Arsenal was the first southern member of The Football League, starting out in the Second Division and winning promotion to the First Division in 1904. Falling attendances, due to financial difficulties among the munitions workers and the arrival of more accessible football clubs elsewhere in the city, led the club close to bankruptcy by 1910. Businessmen Henry Norris and William Hall became involved in the club, and sought to move them elsewhere.
In 1913, soon after relegation back to the Second Division, Woolwich Arsenal moved to the new Arsenal Stadium in Highbury, North London. This saw their third change of name: the following year, they reduced Woolwich Arsenal to simply The Arsenal. In 1919, The Football League voted to promote The Arsenal, instead of relegated local rivals Tottenham Hotspur, into the newly enlarged First Division, despite only listing the club sixth in the Second Division's last pre-war season of 1914-15. Some books have speculated that the club won this election to division one by dubious means. Later that year, The Arsenal started dropping "The" in official documents, gradually shifting its name for the final time towards Arsenal, as it is generally known today.
One of Bertie Mee's double winners, George Graham, returned as manager in 1986. Arsenal won their first League Cup in 1987, Graham's first season in charge. By 1988, new signings Nigel Winterburn, Lee Dixon and Steve Bould had joined the club to complete the "famous Back Four" led by existing player Tony Adams. They immediately won the 1988 Football League Centenary Trophy, and followed it with the 1988-89 Football League title, snatched with a last-minute goal in the final game of the season against fellow title challengers Liverpool. Graham's Arsenal won another title in 1990-91, losing only one match, won the FA Cup and League Cup double in 1993, and the European Cup Winners' Cup, in 1994. Graham's reputation was tarnished when he was found to have taken kickbacks from agent Rune Hauge for signing certain players, and he was dismissed in 1995. His permanent replacement, Bruce Rioch, lasted for only one season, leaving the club after a dispute with the board of directors.
The club metamorphosed during the long tenure of manager Arsène Wenger, appointed in 1996. New, attacking football, an overhaul of dietary and fitness practices, and efficiency with money have defined his reign. Accumulating key players from Wenger's homeland, such as Patrick Vieira and Thierry Henry, Arsenal won a second League and Cup double in 1997-98 and a third in 2001-02. In addition, the club reached the final of the 1999-2000 UEFA Cup, were victorious in the 2003 and 2005 FA Cups, and won the Premier League in 2003-04 without losing a single match, an achievement which earned the side the nickname "The Invincibles". This latter feat came within a run of 49 league matches unbeaten from 7 May 2003 to 24 October 2004, a national record.
Arsenal finished in either first or second place in the league in eight of Wenger's first nine seasons at the club, although on no occasion were they able to retain the title. The club had never progressed beyond the quarter-finals of the Champions League until 2005-06; in that season they became the first club from London in the competition's fifty-year history to reach the final, in which they were beaten 2-1 by Barcelona. In July 2006, they moved into the Emirates Stadium, after 93 years at Highbury. Arsenal reached the final of the 2007 and 2011 League Cups, losing 2-1 to Chelsea and Birmingham City respectively.
The club had not gained a major trophy since the 2005 FA Cup until 17 May 2014 when, spearheaded by then club-record acquisition Mesut Özil, Arsenal beat Hull City in the 2014 FA Cup Final, coming back from a 2-0 deficit to win the match 3-2. A year later, Arsenal appeared in the FA Cup final for the second time in a row, defeating Aston Villa 4-0 in the final and becoming the most successful club in the tournament's history with 12 titles, a record which Manchester United would tie the following season. Arsenal later won the FA Cup for a record 13th time, defeating Chelsea 2-1 in the 2017 final and once more becoming the outright leader in terms of FA Cups won. The victory also saw Wenger become the first manager in English football history to win seven FA Cups. However, in that same season, Arsenal finished in the fifth position in the league, the first time they had finished outside the top four since before Wenger arrived in 1996. After another unspectacular league season the following year, Wenger announced his departure from the club on 20 April 2018, after 22 years as manager. - Rex Stout was an American writer from Indiana, primarily remembered for his detective fiction works. His best known characters were the Montenegrin armchair detective Nero Wolfe and his witty live-in assistant Archie Goodwin. Nero was depicted as a middle-aged war veteran, who rarely left his luxurious New York City brownstone house. So he relied on Archie for investigative work, and for personal assessments on some of the characters involved in their cases. The book series featuring the two characters lasted from 1934 to 1975. In 1985, Stout's final novella collection was published posthumously. Stout served as president of the Authors Guild for several years, and briefly served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America (MWA). He won the MWA's prestigious Grand Master Award in 1959.
In 1886, Stout was born to a Quaker family in Noblesville, Indiana. The city was one of the suburbs of Indianapolis. It underwent growth in the late 1880s, following the discovery of natural gas resources within the city's areas. Stout's parents were the teacher John Wallace Stout and his wife Lucetta Elizabeth Todhunter. Stout's sister was the horticulturist Ruth Stout (1884-1980), who wrote several books about gardening techniques.
Though born in Indiana, Stout was primarily raised in Kansas. His family had moved there during his childhood. Stout was encouraged to read by his father, and he reportedly had considerable reading skills before entering grade school. He managed to read the entire Biblical canon at an early age. In 1899, Stout won a state spelling bee championship.
Stout received his secondary education at the Topeka High School (1871-), a public high school located in Topeka, Kansas. The school had a large population of students for much of its early history, and attendance had repeatedly outgrown the capacity of the school facilities. Stout received his college education at the University of Kansas, a public research university located in Lawrence, Kansas.
In 1906, Stout joined the United States Navy. He served for some time as as a yeoman on the presidential yacht of then-president Theodore Roosevelt (term 1901-1909). Stout left the Navy in 1908. He was then drifting from job to job for the next few years. In 1910, Stout published one of his poems in the literary magazine "The Smart Set". He published a few more poems in this magazine, before starting work on prose fiction.
Between 1912 and 1918, Stout published about 40 short stories and novellas in various magazines. He was among the early writers of the pulp magazine "The All-Story Magazine" (1905-1920), which merged with its sister publication "Argosy" in 1920. His stories belonged to various genres, including adventure fiction, detective fiction, fantasy, romance, and science fiction. Two of these early works were murder mystery novellas, indicating his early interest in the genre.
Stout's literary career was not particularly lucrative in the 1910s, so he had to find other ways to earn money. In c. 1916, Stout invented a new school banking system. His system allowed schools to keep track of the money that school children saved in accounts at their school. About 400 schools adopted his system within a few years, and he was paid royalties for its use. Stout earned a small fortune, which allowed him to travel extensively. He gave up writing professionally for a while, though he intended to return to writing once he was wealthy enough to write whatever he pleased.
In 1926, Stout became one of the co-founders of the publishing house Vanguard Press (1926-1988). He served as the company's president from 1926 to 1928. Vanguard's early works focused on radical political publications. It later had a considerable catalog of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and children's literature, though it never became a major publisher. In 1929, Stout lost much of his savings at the start of the Great Depression. By that time, he had already resumed his literary career.
In the second phase of his literary career, Stout wrote the psychological story "How Like a God" (1929) and the political thriller novel "The President Vanishes" (1934). The novel depicted a President of the United States who staged his own disappearance in order to counter a planned military coup by an alliance of fascists and business oligarchs. It generated considerable publicity, and received its own film adaptation.
Stout introduced his popular characters Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin in the hit novel "Fer-de-Lance" (1934). The novel also introduced several of their recurring supporting characters. Stout started to increasingly focus on detective fiction, and had abandoned his work on all other genres by 1938. In 1937, he introduced the female detective Theodolinda "Dol" Bonner as a story protagonist. She would later join the recurring cast of the Nero Wolfe series. Stout also introduced the detective protagonists Tecumseh Fox and Alphabet Hicks, but soon lost interest in them.
Between 1940 and 1966, Stout published one new Nero Wolfe novel per year. He rarely published any other works in this period, as the Nero Wolfe series was by far his most lucrative work. His literary output declined considerably in quantity between 1968 and 1975. He published only four new novels in this period. His final Nero Wolfe novel was "A Family Affair" (1975), where Nero learns about the shady activities of one of his closest associates.
Stout died in October 1975, at the age of 88. His work has remained popular and influential among writers. In 2000, he was nominated by Bouchercon XXXI (an annual convention of creators and devotees of mystery and detective fiction) for its writer of the century award. He lost the award to Agatha Christie, but was listed as a runner-up, alongside Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Dorothy L. Sayers. In 2014, Stout was inducted posthumously to the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. - Actor
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Will King was born on 1 December 1886 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Weak But Willing (1929), Grass Skirts (1929) and The Fatal Forceps (1929). He was married to Claire Starr (actress). He died on 22 January 1958 in San Francisco, California, USA.- Pavel Kurzner was born on 1 December 1886 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Storona lesnaya (1928), Litsom k litsu (1931) and Sekret (1931). He died in January 1948 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].
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Adolf Abter was born on 1 December 1887 in Hanover, Germany. Adolf was a director and producer, known for Die Nacht und der Leichnam (1920), Zwei schwarze Laternen (1921) and Der goldene Skorpion (1921). Adolf died on 5 July 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.- Music Department
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Alan D'Albert was born on 1 December 1887. He was an actor, known for Song in Soho (1937), Carry on London (1937) and Windmill Revels (1937). He died in 1959 in Surrey, England, UK.- Maureen Delaney was born on 1 December 1888 in Kilkenny, Ireland. She was an actress, known for The Holly and the Ivy (1952), The Doctor's Dilemma (1958) and Odd Man Out (1947). She was married to Peter O'Neill. She died on 27 March 1961 in London, England, UK.
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One of the more prolific American directors, Ray Taylor was a Midwesterner who began his show-business career as an actor and stage manager in regional theater, a career that was interrupted by army service in World War I. After his discharge he ventured to Hollywood, where he got a job with Fox Films and worked as an assistant director, often with John Ford. In the 1920s Taylor traveled crosstown to Universal Pictures, where he got the opportunity to become a director, initially of one- and two-reelers. His proficiency in that niche impressed Universal execs enough to promote him to features and serials. When talkies made their debut, Taylor--unlike many of his silent-era colleagues--had no trouble adapting to the techniques of sound films, and in fact his career went on the fast track. Universal put him in the director's chair on many of its top western series and eventually placed him at the helm of one of its most popular and fondly remembered serials, "Flash Gordon." However, due to a worsening drinking problem his work by the late 1930s and early 1940s was often erratic. Director William Witney said he got his first co-directing credit--on the Republic serial The Painted Stallion (1937)--because Taylor had gotten so drunk by lunchtime one day about halfway through filming that he had to be taken home. Witney was called upon to replace him and finish the picture.
Taylor was teamed up with the equally prolific, but more reliable, Ford Beebe during his last years at Universal. When the serial genre began to die out Taylor went back to making westerns, and was eventually hired by Producers Releasing Corp. (PRC) to try to give a professional veneer to its low-grade western series starring erstwhile "cowboy" Lash La Rue. When the series and its star left low-rent PRC for Ron Ormond's even lower-rent Western Adventure Productions, Taylor went with them. However, the series' rock-bottom budgets, tenth-rate scripts and the stupefying ineptness of its star stymied whatever efforts Taylor made to breathe some life into them, and these entries can hardly be counted among his better efforts. Taylor retired from the business in 1949 and died in 1952.- Benjamin Crémieux was born on 1 December 1888 in Narbonne, Aude, France. He was a writer, known for Henri IV (1961) and La vie que je t'ai donnée (1961). He was married to Marianne Françoise Regazzacci-Stephanopoli. He died on 14 April 1944 in Buchenwald, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany.
- He started his career in the theater in 1909 and won right away, despite his young age, a leading position in the Society of Flavio Andò, which included players of the caliber of Evelina Paoli and Antonio Gandusio in 1911 he is in the company with Ruggero Ruggeri. In 1912 he became part of one of the companies represented in Italy and abroad the most popular works of the playwright Sem Benelli of Prato (as "La cena delle beffe" and "L'amore dei tre re"), starring opposite "Gualtiero Tumiati" and Arnaldo Ninchi, until 1932 when he was hired by EIAR.
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Jon Iversen was born on 1 December 1889 in Sakskobing, Denmark. He was an actor and director, known for Den rige enke (1962), Tre finder en kro (1955) and Den gamle præst (1939). He died on 17 August 1964 in Denmark.- Hans Heinz Bollmann was born on 1 December 1889 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Beggar Student (1931), Friederike (1932) and Die Dubarry (1951). He died on 9 July 1974 in Hamburg, Germany.
- Actor
Clyde Courtright was born on 1 December 1889 in Watsonville, California, USA. He was an actor. He was married to Ethel M. Watters, Rhoda White Johnstone and Marian Elliott Sawle. He died on 2 October 1967 in Santa Cruz, California, USA.- Composer, songwriter ("My Pony Boy"), author, pianist and producer, a vaudeville accompanist first, and then a vaudeville producer. Joining ASCAP in 1943, his popular-song compositions include "My Pony Boy", "You Never Can Be Too Sure About the Girls", "In the Sweet Long Ago", "Roll 'Em Girls", and "You Can't Cry Over My Shoulder".